Artemisia Gentileschi

Born in Rome in 1593, Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi was the eldest child of painter Orazio Gentileschi. Showing exceptional talent from a young age, she trained in her father's workshop, quickly surpassing her brothers. By age 17, she completed her earliest surviving work, *Susanna and the Elders* (1610), demonstrating a powerful blend of Caravaggio's realism and the classicism of the Bolognese School. Her early career was marked by a traumatic event: at around 18, she was rape…